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New Zealand v England 2007-08 / Players / Akila Dananjaya

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Akila Dananjaya

Sri Lanka

Full name Mahamarakkala Kurukulasooriya Patabendige Akila Dananjaya Perera

Born October 4, 1993, Panadura

Current age 20 years 199 days

Major teams Sri Lanka, Chennai Super Kings, Sri Lanka Under-23s, Wayamba United

Playing role Allrounder

Batting style Left-hand bat

Bowling style Right-arm offbreak

Height 5.07

Education Mahanama Vidyalaya, Panadura

Mahamarakkala Kurukulasooriya Patabendige Akila Dananjaya Perera

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct	St
ODIs	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
T20Is	5	1	1	0	0*	-	0	-	0	0	0	0	1	0
First-class	15	21	11	234	52	23.40	457	51.20	0	2	30	1	4	0
List A	22	5	3	5	5*	2.50	21	23.80	0	0	0	0	5	0
Twenty20	17	7	4	1	1*	0.33	4	25.00	0	0	0	0	2	0

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
ODIs	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
T20Is	5	5	84	95	7	2/9	2/9	13.57	6.78	12.0	0	0	0
First-class	15	28	1901	1196	47	7/139	7/60	25.44	3.77	40.4	3	1	0
List A	22	19	727	512	19	4/31	4/31	26.94	4.22	38.2	2	0	0
Twenty20	17	16	330	334	21	3/18	3/18	15.90	6.07	15.7	0	0	0

Career statistics

Only ODI	Sri Lanka v New Zealand at Hambantota, Nov 12, 2012 scorecard
ODI statistics
T20I debut	Sri Lanka v New Zealand at Pallekele, Sep 27, 2012 scorecard
Last T20I	Australia v Sri Lanka at Melbourne, Jan 28, 2013 scorecard
T20I statistics
First-class debut	Colts Cricket Club v Ragama Cricket Club at Colombo (Colts), Feb 1-3, 2013 scorecard
Last First-class	Colts Cricket Club v Panadura Sports Club at Katunayake, Mar 21-23, 2014 scorecard
List A debut	Sri Lanka v New Zealand at Hambantota, Nov 12, 2012 scorecard
Last List A	Colts Cricket Club v Nondescripts Cricket Club at Colombo (RPS), Dec 21, 2013 scorecard
Twenty20 debut	Uthura Rudras v Wayamba United at Colombo (RPS), Aug 12, 2012 scorecard
Last Twenty20	Colts Cricket Club v Hong Kong at Colombo (Colts), Feb 25, 2014 scorecard

Recent matches

Bat & Bowl	Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date	Scorecard
0/24, 12*, 0/20	Colts	v Panadura	Katunayake	21 Mar 2014	FC
3/74, 2, 1/65, 8*	Colts	v Bloomfield	Katunayake	14 Mar 2014	FC
0/2, 18*, 0/43	Colts	v Chilaw	Panagoda	7 Mar 2014	FC
3/20, 2, 3/41, 8*	Colts	v Badureliya	Colombo (Colts)	28 Feb 2014	FC
2/17, 0	Colts	v Hong Kong	Colombo (Colts)	25 Feb 2014	T20
0, 0/15	Colts	v SL Air SC	Katunayake	21 Feb 2014	FC
4/7, 7, 3/53, 52	Colts	v Col CC	Colombo (Colts)	14 Feb 2014	FC
2/85, 10*, 0/59	SL-A Emerg	v Eng Lions	Colombo (Colts)	6 Feb 2014	FC
1/79, 52, 2/46	Colts	v Nondescripts	Colombo (NCC)	31 Jan 2014	FC
0*, 2/46, 41, 0/30	Colts	v SL Army	Colombo (Colts)	17 Jan 2014	FC

Profile

Another installment from Sri Lanka's production line of unorthodox spinners, Akila Dananjaya sparked controversy when he was picked in the preliminary squad for the 2012 World Twenty20, despite never having played a professional match in his life. Able to deliver a legbreak, googly, carrom ball, doosra and a stock offspinner with astounding control, he had impressed Mahela Jayawardene so much as a net bowler at a Sri Lanka practice session, that Jayawardene requested he be fast-tracked to the national squad.